12/07/2010

2005 Fashion Royalty - A Fashionable Life - Vanessa Perrin

The year was 2005 - a year of amazing Fashion Royalty dolls including:
Born to Gamble Kyori

Flirtatious Veronique

Bodacious Adele

Age of Opulence Isha

Amazing gift sets including:
Poesie Sans Couleur Vanessa

Ginza Blond and Redhead Kyori

A Fashionable Life Raven and Platinum.

It was also the year for furniture including the chaise, coffee table, liquor cabinet and bed.

I started collecting FR in earnest that year as well. I got the platinum AFL right away but it took several years to get her sister. This week, they were both redressed in Talking Drama Adele's gown. I dyed the steel blue version.

I love these dolls. There is something about handling the 'older' Fashion Royalty dolls and redressing them that is very satisfying and comfortable.

I like that FR is doing trendier clothing, but at the same time they need to really bring it with classic outfits and looks at the same time like the ones in this blog post. Perhaps NuFace needs to be the hip and hot young Hollywood socialite line, FR2 be the trendy stuff you see on the runways and FR needs to keep it classic. IDK.

Beautiful pictures of beautiful dolls. I actually saw the AFL raven just before my friend sold it. She's a gorgeous doll and the giftset was great and if I could have bought one, I certainly would have. These will probably keep their value a LONG time. Thanks for posting pictures, especially the close up of raven's face. Rita in CA

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